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Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
Approximate author period: c. 1740 AD · early modern
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- Laurence Sterne
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- Approximate author period: c. 1740 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Sermon xxvii.
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